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It may not look jazzy, but it sure is functional. Additional glitz will just increase loading time. Have no idea where you are located, GabrielMl, but members here are spread all over the world and many are on speed & bandwidth-limited connections.

Only Chinese get adopted or come from the shallow end of the gene pool?? Wow, that's pretty racist.

D-Link had major vulnerabilities discovered a year or so ago - shockingly bad stuff. In addition, they published some stuff that wasn't meant to be. I don't recollect the details, but I too would recommend you go with a contemporary product and retire your old D-Link.

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Thanks guys. I was more concerned about the almost weekly release of news about horrendous vulnerabilities in Android. My dear darling manufacturer, Samsung, provides no updates whatsoever, no matter how critical said vulnerabilities are. So I've been leery of using the phone for anything...

Is it secure to pay through the phone? Don't laugh, you know I'm paranoid about these things, and Android isn't exactly Fort Knox. I've avoided paid apps that I wanted and would gladly pay solely for this reason. Couldn't figure out if there is a way to pay through my desktop on the play store...

NoScript and other popular Firefox add-ons open millions to new attack

Right, Merc, that's why I just placed an order for a 300 mbps N class 2.4GHz TP-Link Router-Wi-Fi device. My old Buffalo AP is needing resets every now and then; sometimes a couple of times a day, sometimes once every few days. It was purchased in early 2006 and has been used daily since. My ISP...

While the speed is better, I keep reading that range is the problem - signal strength seems to drop rapidly as one moves away from the wireless device. IMHO, this is the result of using 5 GHz instead of 2.4. When cordless phones moved from 900 MHz to 2.4, there was a drop in range and a...

Why? That is irrational. What if you're planning on moving all electric? What if you have peak loads? How did you manage to spike usage?? !!

Thanks guys. Done. It's an idotic default on MS' part. Coming back to Win-10, Handy's link several posts back about making registry changes to force even wired internet connections to be metered connection seems to have worked wonders for me. Even Windows Update is concerned about my Internet...

Well, Office 2007 help always brings up internet search results instead of the local help. I find this irritating and frustrating, but don't know how to disable the internet search. The irony is that the internet search results are always crappy.

A truly short-sighted dick. Probably couldn't see beyond his own nose.

How does DoNoSpy10 compare to Spybot's Anti-Beacon?

I dealwith tipping ok, but it can be problematic. In some countries a tip is considered an insult. Knowing social mores in different countries is quite challenging.

You need to fly trans-continental, with some legs 15-hours non-stop! Done it more times than I can remember.

I had weird issues with FastCopy and Teracopy; decided a slower but surer method (Windows Explorer) was preferable to unknown / botched results.

Thanks Gilbo, good to know.

Well, it says everywhere on the 'net that to be safe, unplug all drives other than the destination when installing W10. I unplugged all my other drives and had a totally painless install. And of course, I'm not running any exotic hw like you, and my system is 3+ years old so W10 knows all about...

IIRC, it's the other way around! Memtest86 I think is not updated anymore, Memtest86+ is.

Well, technically an activated W7 installation is eligible for an upgrade, no? Worst case you can do an upgrade, activate W10, wipe, do a clean install of W10 with the W7 key and you should be set. More pain and effort, but you do reach the destination. If you can, you may want to do the clean...

While doing some research on W10, I came across this page: Major Linux Problems on the Desktop or Why Linux is not (yet) Ready for the Desktop, 2016 edition It seems one is caught between the devil (MS) and the deep blue sea.

I really, really like that idea! I should memorize one and give it out when some dick store clerk insists on having my # before checkout will proceed.

I too have never heard of Moonpie despite having lived in Southern California for 2+ decades. According to Wiki: A moon pie or MoonPie is a confection, popular in parts of the United States (emphasis mine).

I'm getting sloppy because I don't do as much hw / sw work as I used to. I should have opened the laptop up to see what was there before ordering. My fault. Ain't no XMP settings in the BIOS, sir. Hardly anything I can change - only boot order, security password and stuff like that. I tested...

I bought my daughter a Lenovo IdeaPad Z580 in the fall of 2013. It came with 4GB RAM. I meant to add more, but forgot. Got to it now. Lenovo lists a bunch of SODIMM sticks that are compatible, and I bought one of them, a 4GB Hynix. I opened the laptop up, and whew, one slot was still free...

How can a well-known brand ship such crappily finished product? Sheesh.

I didn't want to be a cribber, but it's been terribly slow for me the last two weeks. Much faster right now; all tabs loaded after a few seconds. Usually it's minutes. I'll switch to another browser and do something else while SF loads. Don't know if it's an across-the-pond issue since I'm on...

The CFL has come back to the living room. Wife didn't like the harshness of the LEDs. One was too bright, another too dim. I didn't have the patience or the money to buy the Goldilocks one.

Never mind.

Veracrypt uses the TC code and so is supposed to be compatible. I suggest you folow DD's link, download TC from there, and use TC. If you're familiar with TC, why bother with anything else for now.

For the preview editions of W10, there were reports that it checks for cracked sw and reports back to MS. Is this still true? Some people I know were asking.

I'm still using Truecrypt. It works on W10 as well. I've heard that VeraCrypt, based on the Truecrypt code base, is also good. I'm staying with Truecrypt for now since I have some volumes encrypted with it, I'm not doing anything fancy with it (like boot drive encryption), and it meets my needs...

My Dell 2209WA LCD monitor purchased circa 2009 has developed a dead / stuck pixel (black dot). Not bothersome now, hope it doesn't grow.

Looks like, Merc. Anyway, life goes on, I'll worry about this if I can't pull the plug on w7 when the time comes. I used Media Creation Tool on my W7-64 Ultimate to download the ISO I used to fresh-install W10 using another W7-64-Pro key. When upgrading my daughter's laptop, I'd rather do it...

Depends on where I shut down from. If the m/c was shut down from W7, the boot menu comes up. If the m/c was shut down in W10, no boot menu, straight boot into W10. If I want W7, I'll have to "re-start" W10, then the boot menu comes up. Not a big deal, fairly soon I'll be purely W10 based with...

I did; everything looks correct. Obviously it isn't :( You lost me there! I'd think if the boot loader was set up correctly, I should always see it, regardless of which OS I shut down from.

Was this addressed to me Merc? I don't use Edge at all; I've downloaded Chrome and Firefox and use those. I have already downloaded Foobar2000; it's when I try to install it that W10 warns about it not being signed. Or am I missing something in that if I turn off SmartScreen in Edge this check...

Amazing fact: My Colorvision/Datacolor Spyder2Express calibration unit with the last software version released for it in Nov. 2012 actually worked in W10-64! My Dell 2209WA LCD monitor purchased circa 2009 is now color calibrated :bglaugh:

Wow, heavy duty stuff. I just skimmed through it, most of it went right over my head. :)

Tim, my w10 installation is still a work in progress. Meanwhile I have get things done (meaning W7). As and when I have time, I am adding the sw I need on to W10. Some day soon my W10 install will be "self-sufficient" and I cn discontinue W7. I then have to figure out how to get rid of the boot...

An anomaly in the space-time continuum. Dual boot is not all hunky-dory. If I boot into W10 and shut down - power-off, the boot menu does not show up on power-on; machine goes straight into W10. If I needed W7, I have to restart W10 to see the boot menu. What could be wrong? In Easy BCD Edit...

Marinating, sir, marinating. So they'll be well done when they go into your system.

Not the current release - 1.3.9

I tried installing Foobar; W10 barfed saying it wasn't signed. Getting around this in W10 is quite a pain. I realize it's good that MS is watching out for us. I only wish more sw developers made their products W10 friendly. Irfanview 64 triggers a hyper immune response from W10 as well.

Being the Luddite that I am, I've disabled most things in W10. So thankfully haven't encountered this problem. Of course I haven't used W10 as much as you. Does application software (not hw device drivers) that works in W7-64 work in W10-64? BTW, first time ever that I'm browsing & posting...

So is The Revenant not worth seeing?

Do all brands of M.2 SSDs get hot because of the intrinsic nature of the beast, or are you both talking the same brand?

I have my e-sig. The certificate is on a protected / special type of USB flash pen drive. The good news: While the e-sig can be used for a variety of purposes, at present my only need is to comply with Ministry of Company Affairs requirements. All hail the Gods, the MCA website supports the...

A big fat Havana cigar for Merc! Thanks buddy, problem fixed! I first tried (before Merc posted) to boot from the W10 DVD, but oddly, it would not boot, and kept booting from W7 on the SSD. Then I tried EasyBCD, but couldn't make sense of it. Also the website only kept talking about XP, Vista...